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Barnes 1941

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Barnes]

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MATERNITY AND CHILD WELFARE.

Table 33.—Home-Visiting.

A summary of the work performed by the three Health Visitors during the year is given below:—
Visits to expectant mothers384
First visits to newly-born infants306
Revisits to infants under 1 year2,085
Visits to children aged 1 to 5 years3,175
Visits in connection with Council's scheme for the supply of milk43
Still-birth inquiries5
Special visits to cases of measles90
„ „ „ „ „ whooping cough391
„ „ „ „ „ pneumonia16
Visits to foster children72
Visits in connection with infectious diseases other than those above specified1,111
Total visits7,678

Table 34.- Notification of Births.

(a) Registered in Borough:—Live Births.Still Births.Totals.
Number of births registered during 1941 as occurring in the Borough2486254
Number of such births not notified in accordance with the Public Health Act, 1936, Part VII123
(b) Notified.
Number of births, live and still, notified during the year—
by medical practitioners10
by midwives246
by other persons1
Total notified257

Number of still-births notified during the year 6
Percentage of still-births to total births occurring in the Borough 2.3

Table 35—Institutional Confinements.

In institutions within the Borough127
In registered maternity homes127
In institutions outside the Borough108
In general hospitals8
In maternity hospitals29
In Public Health County hospitals35
In Public Assistance institutions22
In maternity homes14
Total235

Number of above institutional confinements arranged
through the Borough Ante-natal Clinic 50